In 1949 a neighbor was doing auto repair in his garage as a side along with farming and hauling milk. When I was putting the head back on my Chevy I thought I needed a tourqe wrench and ask Dad if he would buy one. He sent me to the neighbor to see if he would loan me his. The neighbor took me out to his garage and showed me an old ratchet and a pair of channel locks. He said that those had always been his torque wrench. When he had all the head bolts drawn down as tight as he could with the ratchet by hand he would pull on the ratchet with the channel locks until they lost its grip and slipped off. Said he had never lost a head gasket in all his years of auto repair. From that I got the idea that exact torque readings was not that important except in rare cases. Of course the auto and tractor engines of the time were lower compression engines. Drop your rocks folks as this is just a memory about torque wrenches from an old mans past Not Advise.
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Today's Featured Article - Old Time Threshing - by Anthony West. A lovely harvest evening late September 1947, I was a school boy, like all school boys I loved harvest time. The golden corn ripens well and early, the stoking, stacking,.... the drawing in with the tractors and trailers and a few buck rakes thrown in, and possibly a heavy horse. It would be a great day for the collies and the terrier dogs, rats and mice would be at the bottom of the stacks so the dogs, would have a busy time hunting and killing, all the corn was gathered and ricked in what we c
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